This paper is about when we read the play “The Miracle Worker” and then watched the movie the “The Miracle Worker”. The play was published in 1956. The play was written by William Gibson. Both of these the play and the movie are about Helen Keller and how she learned that objects have a name. The movie was published in 1962. It was directed by Arthur Penn. The movie was after the play because it was based off of the play. In both the play and the movie the people that were starring was Helen, Kate (Helen’s mom), Annie (Helen’s teacher), Captain Keller ( Helen’s dad). Those were the main people to talk and have more parts. There were many similarities in the play and the movie. In both of then right at the beginning when the doctor was at there house he said that she would be perfectly fine …show more content…
But very minimum disadvantages. Some advantages are that you learned Helen’s life was really like and more background of where Annie came from and how her childhood was like. Two advantages about reading the play was that you could become the characters and what there personalities were like. The second one is that you could stop and talk about what we did not understand and what it meant. Some advantages of the movie was that you already knew what the characters were like and how acted, also that now you can see them in action. Some disadvantages are that the play and the movie had some differences, but it would have been good if it was exactly the same. I preferred the movie because that were acting it out and how it would have been in real life. But in the play it was just word and not people acting it out and what they looked like and what clothes they were wearing if the were nice or messy. That is the reason why I like the movie better than the play. I think that the play and the movie were very just that the play took longer and you would have to remember what happened before and their